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12.5C

CDLXV (A XII, 5 C)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM, 12 JUNE

I have sent Tiro to meet Dolabella. He will be returning to me on the 13th. I shall expect you the next day. I see that you regard my dear Tullia's interests as of the first importance. I beg you earnestly to let it be so. So then she is still completely uncommitted; for so you say in your letter. Though I had to avoid the Kalends, [Note] and shun the "originals" [Note] of the Nicasiones, and had to balance my accounts, yet there was nothing to make up for my absence from you. When I was at Rome and thought every moment that I was going to catch a sight of you, even so every day

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the hours of waiting seemed long. You know I am by no means a flatterer, and so I considerably understate my feelings.



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